Improvement in camp-stools



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ALBERT HALLOWELL, EDMUND ELLIOTT, AND CHARLES A. BLODGETT, OF LOW- ELL, MASSACHUSETTS; SAID ELLIOTT ASSIGNS HIS RIGHT TO CHARLES A.

BLODGETT.

IMPROVEMENT IN CAMP-STOOLS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 117,277, dated July 25, 1871.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that We, ALBERT HALLOwELL, EDMUND ELLIOTT, and CHARLES A. BLODGETT, all of Lowell, inthe county of Middlesex and C0111- monwealth of Massachusetts, have invented certain Improvements in Camp-Stools, of which the following is a speciiication:

The object of our invention is to furnish a light, cheap, and portable camp-stool which can be packed into a small space.

Figure l is a plan of the stool inverted, with legs packed as hereinafter described. Figure 2 is an elevation of said stool.

G represents the flat round seat of the stool. A, B, and C are the three legs of the stool, said legs consisting of three rods of metal or wood, and terminating at one end in a screw or a taper, and at the other end enlarged into a foot of any desirable form, and of suflicient size to prevent the Weight of the stool and ofthe person sitting thereonfrom sinking the said legs into the ground. Secured to the under side of the seat G, and at equal distances from each other, are three steps, D, E, and F, made to receive the screw or taperends of the legs A, B, and C. On the under side of said seat is a cleat, H, which has on its upper side three parallel slots or grooves cut through said cleat from end to end ofthe same, the object of these slots or grooves being to hold the legs when the stool is not in use, as seen in Fig. l, the dotted lines representing the legs. The cleat H, being pla ced aross the grain of the wood which forms the seat G, serves the further purpose of strengthening said wood and of resisting any tendency of the same to warp or break, so that the seat can be made very thin and yet be sufficiently strong.

. Tables may be constructed on the same principle-merely by making a larger stool you have a table. If preferred, tables or stools may be constructed with four or more legs, the tops of said tables or stools being of an elliptical or of any other Oblong form.

/Ve claim as our inventionl. The cleat H, slottedendwise on its upper side to receive the legs A, B, and C, as and for the purpose set forth.

2. The combination of the scat G, -the steps D, E, and'F, the legs A, B, and C, and the cleat H, all constructed substantially as and for the pur pose herein set forth.

ALBERT HALLOWELL. EDMUN D ELLIOTT.. CHARLES ApBLODGETT.

Witnesses:

ALBERT M. MOORE, ABEL T. ATIIERTON. 

